live from moscow with a cold in the crossfire kurds living in a northern syrian area face a deadly onslaught from al qaeda extremists ready to wipe them out to make way for a breakaway islamic state. barack obama accuses russia of reverting to a cold war mentality while moscow declares old hostilities dead and buried we reported on the latest chill in relations triggered by the snowden dispute. and candidates for the post of moscow may take this skirmish to the media readers we report on account paid promises of the main rival. given on what they are to do centering this company the top story in the leader of

the iraqi kurdistan area says that his forces could intervene to protect fellow kurds in neighboring syria who are facing daily attacks from jihadist militants the al qaeda linked factions which initially flooded into syria to fight against the government there and now seeking to set up what islam is stating the country's northeast of sleep as the latest on the plight of the kurds. we've been speaking to eyewitnesses relatives and also kurdish journalists and from the sequence of events that we've been able to piece together that commie nineteenth of july you had an assault by islamist extremists at that stage they placed a bomb in a local kurdish school they also rounded up and abducted a number of civilians the very next day and number of kurdish houses in various kurdish enclave were blown up it was also an entire kurdish village that was destroyed and some five hundred people were kidnapped that violence continued into

early august when you had the reported killing of at least some seventy codes and the abduction of another three hundred and fifty now this week we saw a massacre in which some four hundred and fifty could were killed from the figures we've been receiving seven hundred twenty of them were children some three hundred and fifty of them were women that massacre happening in a syrian town on the turkish border not neither damascus nor the opposition has actually confirmed that massacre but we have been speaking to eyewitnesses and this is what they told us back in recently they came into villages and started to blame the locals would be faithless it was during ramadan they opened fire on villagers people came onto the streets men women and children they fired at everyone who came in the way they captured many young men and began to cut them with knives we told them that we were muslims too but they said that they would continue to kill us so

they also said that our grant to them all or money or property or women maybe even tomorrow everyone around my neck was killed. when civilians escaped their shot militias raided their houses blew up some of them and robbed others the conditions are very bad people are in fear and terrorized the all nusra fighters are out of control there raiding the streets there's no media coverage and anyone who tries to reach out. it's being kidnapped by the militants and one of the problems we face is that some of ports are difficult to verify as you heard there from kurds we've been speaking to they say that if they come forward and they report on any of the actions kidnappings or killings they themselves run the risk of in the words they want to head is this is illegal where the language that is being carried out by the islamist fighters this is resulting in the spread of this information you have the scarcity of sources this too is leading to discrepancies in the reports that are

making it into the international media and then of course you have videos that are being posted online that are sometimes difficult to independently verify there was one video that was posted that purported to show the killing of kurds it said that they were burned to death later this turned out to be false now we could sim solves say that the attacks are being carried out by islamic fighters that are linked to al qaida you have as one of these groups the al nusra front and this is an organization that has pledged to establish an islamic state in northern syria this is precisely the area where these kurds are living so this is why although for some time you've had the kurds on the periphery of the conflict increasingly we've seen them in the line of fire. is the cold war truly dead and buried well it seems that some of the moscow washington can't quite agree on these days russia says recent tensions are just a temporary glitch but senior u.s. figures including president barbara calling for relations to be paused and reassessed it's widely believed that the catalyst for all this was russia's

decision to grant temporary asylum to whistleblower edward snowden is going to shoot you can report. remember the meeting between russian and u.s. officials at the state department comes days after president obama canceled the bilateral summit with the russian president in september more and more often we hear about a new cold war between moscow and washington so everyone was listening very closely to what officials on both sides were saying and we heard two different messages coming from president obama and for minister lavrov remember very well what you say when we were saying goodbye he said well i believe that we can make a difference in the rest of their convictions let's. as adults. and that's what we're trying to do because if. you incidents. become an impediment to every single.

i think it would be that would be very good six through this president obama in the meantime did the opposite he has basically hyped up the cold war talk when president putin who was prime minister aware that it was president came back into power i think we saw more rhetoric on the russian side that was anti-american that . played into some of the old stereotypes about the cold war contest between the united states and russia and i've encouraged mr putin. think forward as opposed to back on those issues with mixed success president obama also said in light of all the disagreements with russia mentioning syria and snowden it's time to make appalls and to recalibrate the tone of the talks at the state department at least the opening part that we have seen that was different there was an agreement on both sides that they should not lead disagreements and standards

completely overshadow whatever progress the two countries can actually make one area where the two countries can make a difference is the crisis in syria both state the objective the same objective that they want to political solution that they want to bring all sides of the syrian conflict together in geneva to try and make. such a political solution to the syrian opposition says they are not going to sit down no one paper with those who have blood on their hands moscow says in order to stop the bloodshed all hands need to come to the negotiating table and foreign minister lavrov this friday he said that secretary kerry assured him that the opposition will be there at that and go shooting people so there were some very serious issues on the agenda like syria like missile defense in europe where russia and the u.s. obviously don't see eye to eye but making progress on any of those topics becomes that much harder when the relations are defined by scandals and today we heard foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from

the cold war talk but president obama's remarks seem to have exacerbated the tension. it's national relations expert sharon should dig spoke to us about this later spot she thinks the united states is letting his judgment. u.s. administration simply cannot afford to exclude russia from important talks on very important issues. before snowden happens a couple months ago. those issues that were very much to do with syria and some foreign policy issues as well as some economic issues that the u.s. and russia have in common it just seems that this particular snowden affair has unleashed a level of anger in the u.s. government that has that is preventing them from actually doing what they do very well which is to manage foreign policy manage crises and use the press to do that i think it's actually. a very unique and rarely seen sign of weakness.

well the same news conference that last night where president obama mentioned the strains with more sco he promised to reform the much maligned n.s.a. surveillance program more transparency and supervision are on the cards then he said but he gave no indication that mass surveillance is going to be scaled back at all investigative reporter dave lindorff told me the president's just trying to calm public anger. first of all his press conference is totally for u.s. consumption and secondly. we have now seen five years of this where he says one thing and does another. you know each he is not going to cut back on the n.s.a. spying that's clear or. he he could just order it to cut back if he in the past had expressed great concern about the n.s.a. program and yet he's expanded on his watch for five years so i don't see it being cut back east been going after whistleblowers in the most fierce way that anyone

can recall and he uses it for that what they're trying to do is to camp down a growing concern about all the spying among americans that polls keep rising with the number of people who are saying that there is too much spying that the war on terror has overstepped on civil liberties. ten minutes past the hour and i are moskos go back to a top story gets a comment on that they just remind you the kids in syria facing daily attacks from jihadist militants the leader of iraqi kurdistan is said that his forces could intervene now let's go live to london that jenna's david morgan's way to speak to us he's written extensively on the kurdish issue hi david thanks for taking the time to pan out international. hollow let's talk about. al qaeda apparently wants to set up this all autonomous state in syria and now they. what can take he do about that bearing in mind it so also a nato member to. well basically turkey being supplying.

phones and to different groups of the rebel among the rebels including some of the ones who are very involved in the current. conflict and i read yesterday that cia the cia said you know through through libya to to you know to the rebel. the troops as well if there's no monitor and where they are on the go in on the phones you know there's money circulating because i mean i've heard reports that foreign fighters are in there and they're getting phone from and from the gulf states and strong logistical support from from so you know this area well what are you maybe one of the radicals chosen valère be. their particular children the kurdish area because that throughout since the conflict the kurds have refused to join the armed struggle against damascus they preferred

a democratic political solution for transformation within syria and they haven't received guarantees or any commitment from from the main rebel group in particular turkey's doesn't want grant rights. because of their own kurdish majority minority within turkey itself majority of population within within this part of southeast. and of course they have to be met corsi uncomfortable irony here here for turkey is . turkey's been supporting the syrian rebels it's the very same while the jihadist versions of the break all versions about the want to set up this autonomous state if it was shot themselves in a photo. was actually yeah i mean i think mostly the leader of the. the syrian kurds has been to istanbul about a week or so ago and i don't think he got exactly. what was told anything was

decided it. was of the overtures of coming from the government to. you know the this is talk of the packing for going forward that's been the talk rather for a long time so i don't think the kurds have faith in in ankara or a gun and they don't know this repression still going quite extensively within so willing to sell for even want to go in the morning just the president just for thirty seconds of thirty seconds because i want to ask you about the reporting we've been talking about for the last couple of days this news has been coming out that maybe up to four hundred fifty people women children men maybe as well we're not quite sure still could have massacred maybe some of these villages the details are still sketchy you can kind of understand why it's a difficult place to report but from we're kind of surprised why it's still so

sketchy we know the u.n. is looking into it what do you think's going on here. well the u.n. said they're looking into it i'm not sure how or they can get down there will they get down there. well the rebels are looking for a faction and all the other groups have been tried have been trying to provoke you know the kurds and into the conflict since real for quite some time has been the incursions there for quite some time. and it looks like they want them out because a massacre of some kind the numbers are not certain and it does say that children and children with more than civilians right re live been been killed so is a war crime but if it's true it should for it should be investigated and i would say that the international powers the e.u. and america or in the u.n. this would be a block on our hands going in going into the is we need to solve the syrian conflict and it's not it's not going to be resolved by the way scream for bin. it's

the route that's being pursued at the moment is not going to lead to any democratic syria understand the things will get worse ok sir for you being on the program trying to get more going there on the line from london we've got to leave you know we got to go to a break thank you for your time much appreciate it a good night ok ok thank you still ahead for you the concept of pick your own food goes a step further is a fast food culture takes a bite out of quality meals we report on from one farm where you can check on your own chops what the animal's them are you also one of the world's biggest athletic events kicks off here in moscow for the first time almost two thousand athletes are set to compete to mitigate propaganda law controversially overshadowing the upcoming winter olympics got latest on that as well and a few minutes hands too wasted holidays british tourist uncontrollable drinking habits are causing headaches for u.s. embassies around the world we've got a report on that as well this series on t. wealthy

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painted rice to become moscow's new meds in full throttle with the main of a series now officially exchanging critical blows in the media battle field and with less than a month left before polling day campaigning has already seen its share of scandals he's missing now it takes a close look at the front runner. and they're on the last leg of the campaign has officially begun in the first election for moscow's mayor in ten years there are six candidates over seven million registered voters and

a lot of promises being made it's not easy to please a city of an estimated fourteen million people there are major problems huge projects and the seemingly never ending fight against corruption incumbent serviceably on and his team in office for two years are confident the city's streets speak for themselves. have been completely changed the city is prorated have been public space frighten traffic development of public transportation and to take medicine and education to new levels of development and his plan is to continue that work if he is elected also running is anti corruption blogger an opposition leader alexei navarro me recently wrapped up in a fraud scandal arrested and then released his campaign volunteers are promising a new moscow. have you ever been to paris that's what we want green everywhere look here for two months they've been putting down tiles bike paths our plans for

traffic will be like the rest of the world not like some banyan it seems although a staunch critic of the government now vine is platform so far sounds a lot like some guidance it's a liberal program you know it's a program geared for the reach for the rich young and active you know so that they will be able to survive in this city so what about those who are old poor and need support but a state media is focused on. and the opposition media with some help from the west and from n.g.o.s is promoting a volley so the communists and the socialists are sidelined but i think they're kind of this format shape you i mean you go you know a scientist and. also an intelligent man a scientist a socialist kind of i. more humane either way the vote is expected to draw a tremendous turnout that's media coverage and possibly even controversy and he's now

a r t moscow. having fun and relaxing is what holidays rule about but it seems that some brits just don't know when they've had enough of a good thing british tourists are among the most notorious drinkers around the world in a sort of further explains they seem to think nothing can stop them either. the safe you pull the take a and you're finally off on your holidays and say the very last thing you want to have happen is to get into trouble boarding at nineteen thousand people so consular assistance last year according to the latest figures by the foreign and commonwealth office into british behavior there has been a rise in some countries of more serious crimes and that's causing concern in particular the statistics about rape and sexual assaults are up by ten percent now in the countries that are being pinpointed as a particular areas of concern especially in turkey and points all countries popular with young holidaymakers all countries renowned for their very busy night life now

it has to be said the brits do tend to have a bit of a reputation opposing out the whole continues to be a major factor in many of the problems that i think we are as a nation by a. species begins you're fifty brits completely drunk out of their heads. yeah alcohol is the biggest thanks to foreign income of fifty nine hundred thousand people so consular assistance thing a lot of that is going to be getting drunk a lot of it a lot of it definitely and so the foreign and commonwealth office reminding travelers once again to keep safe. it's one of the biggest events of the sporting calendar only beaten by the football world cup and the olympics the world athletic championships kicking off here moscow for the first time out is lindsey from. it's the first time it's been held in russia a country known for its very cold weather and here we've got spectacular sunshine

add to bluebird skies to greet the athletes on their first day of competitions now it's the first world athletics championships it's actually been held out of doors right here at luzhniki stadium right behind me nearly two thousand athletes setting a record of participants this time around people from two hundred six countries including the fastest men on earth use a bolt of forty seven sets of medals are set to be handed out just last until august eighteenth so there's plenty of time for everyone to if you're in moscow if you're lucky enough to be here to come out and check it out but also check it out on television well the recent piece of legislation exacts was passed by the russian government that it effectively bans any sort of promotion of homosexuality to juveniles has really cast a cloud over over advents pertaining to the olympics russia does have a very vibrant gay community here however people especially those who do not live here look at this legislation and frankly they've protested against it and

a lot of times even some political figures and figures within pop culture have have wanted people and certain countries to boycott the olympics however that does not look like at this point it's in anyone's plans however it is a topic that is going to be part of the discussion leading up to and probably even through the olympics as it goes forward there are other countries of course in this world that have very very harsh anti-gay stances within their out with in their societies and this piece of legislation that bans the promotion of that to juveniles is is something that has really especially with westerners a tough to a pill to swallow so the conversation is ongoing people from both sides are weighing in and it is definitely something that has sort of taken control of the the of. lympics dialogue here in russia and it'll be a thing to watch is it as it moves forward. always so a lot more in life you are tonight from boarding

a prominent bahraini activists is prevented from taking a flight home parents because of an order from an online we look at whether the gulf kingdom is tightening the screws ahead of planned mass protests plus in our invasion section we got some great tips spectacular photo galleries there including this one of people in japan and abroad marking the sixty eighth anniversary of the . atomic bomb will find many other world events captured there are two dot com as well. today it's not a problem to make a quick bite see if you haven't got a lot of time when you get a lot of your plate just warm your food in the microwave but for some lot of pro-choice simply not good enough they will know exactly what they're talking into his paper all of that one german farmer who's found a way than to satisfy even the most picky. europeans want to know exactly where their food is coming from this year we've seen the scandal of horse meat being passed off as beef in ready meals and the genetically modified crop giant monsanto decides that there isn't

a market for them in you. all this is given one pig farmer an idea how to assure customers that his product is the best it can be and trying to do is that it's important for people to see the environment where that particular animal has grown up they get to see them in a field surrounded by grass not in some unhumane pigsty. buying from burned is a little different from going to your local organic butcher customers pick their pick from photos online and then through a web cam they can watch the animals grow when you get back and then several months later they receive their requested cut. one the idea behind this belongs to a student from berlin called denis bookman his philosophy was that people should eat fewer but better quality products he wanted to increase food awareness and make it known how meat is produced with famous chefs politicians and stars of music in sport queuing up the bones products from the caucus and some with

a whole pig going for around four hundred fifty euro for. the transport and their policy on customers like to have transparency in the production process and people want to know where their meat comes from if we're looking to fill that niche . these days more and more people are concerned where their food has come from but for some just because you like pork chops doesn't mean you want to come face to face with the pig. that you wouldn't like it to become to tell you i'm sorry because it could be freaky. oh yes he's great but i'm not sure i would have liked to see it when it was a lie many though seem happy enough to watch the did it grow from a free range piglets to a juicy. couplet. you get to see where the biggest comes from how to grow up the live ultimately becomes his the product i've got no problem with the pigs are

grouped in a natural habitat with can't be pigs taste better to us what you know what you're eating in light of the recent scandals that is important because. most dine is would say they want farm animals breed in healthy conditions before they get to the but whether you want a closer relationship with what's to become your sausages or chops is reason a matter of taste he told of a german. totally free range max keiser here after the break. while revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions are exciting t.v. peaceful protests are nice but forge of molotov cocktails flying and crazed crowds

of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical natural reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of cult please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but you. doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the government resign until police would shield smash their way through creating a narrow corridor through which the officials could escape now that sounds like exciting and visual news but why did you hear about it all over the mainstream press that's because it didn't happen in libya or egypt or any other exotic country but in good old boag area right in the e.u. where u.s. and e.u. interests are best served by the status quo being maintained there is no need to hype up an intervention or kinetic action in bulgaria the only time you ever hear about the need for a crackdown in bulgaria is when

a government there actually started working in bulgaria own interests and not the us use desires but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser now according to the guardian newspaper a former manager at the royal bank of scotland impersonated a bunch rater at the bank after losing his job in its property services division yes k k o printed business cards describing himself as a bond salesman with which he attended internal meetings and met customers also in the u.k. this week mark carney attended a press conference where he impersonated a bunch of hater by offering to buy more gilts unemployment rise he also didn't.